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Rethinking Efficiency:
Savings, Value, or Both?
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November 7, 2014
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Learning Objectives
Understand what influences and motivates elected officials
and other decision-makers as key audiences for education
about public health's value.
Understand how focusing on “return on investment” may
(and often does) undermine efforts to promote the value of
public health.
Understand how shifting focus to “return on objective” may
better align with the mission of public health and more
effectively persuade decision-makers in public and private
sectors.
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Presenter
Emily J. Holubowich, MPP
Senior Vice President, CRD Associates
Executive Director, Coalition for Health Funding
@healthfunding
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ROI: Right for Public Health?
• What influences lawmakers and other
policymakers?
• Does ROI actually undermine efforts to
promote public health?
• Are there better ways to communicate value?
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Federal Spending, FY 2014
Federal Spending, FY 2022
NDD Lowest Level Since 1962
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The Lost Decade
• Levels are too low
– Zero sum gain going forward
– “Robbing Peter to pay Paul”
• Fierce competition for limited resources
– Must do vs. nice to do
• Research vs. public health
– “Hard science” (i.e., basic and clinical) vs. “soft science”
(i.e., population-based research, health services research)
– Infectious disease control vs. chronic disease prevention
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Cannibalization of Health
The core of public health used to be society’s interest in
securing the conditions necessary for human survival—
mainly meaning epidemiology and combating
communicable diseases. The pity is that all too often the
current CDC has diluted its mission and budget by
funding political causes that the doctors and troops in
West Africa (and Texas) don’t need. The list extends to
anti-bullying, trans fats, prescription opiate abuse,
college rape prevention, workplace wellness, “racial
and ethnic approaches to community health,” and
promoting breast feeding.
—Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2014
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Cannibalization of Health (cont)
In recent years, the CDC has received significant
amounts of funding. Unfortunately, however, many of
those funds have been diverted away from programs
that can fight infectious diseases, and toward
programs far afield from the CDC’s original purpose…
While protecting Americans from infectious diseases
received only $180 million from the Prevention Fund,
the community transformation grant program
received nearly three times as much money—$517.3
million over the same five-year period.
—Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Politico Magazine, October 12, 2014
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With Challenges, Come Opportunities
• Lawmakers forced to make tough choices
– What works in public health?
• Simply doing what’s “right” isn’t enough
– Emphasis on evidence, impact
• Community has opportunity to EDUCATE:
– Explain what you do, and why its important
– Share evidence to inform policy decisions
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Know Your Audience
• Lawmakers at all levels of government,
regardless of party:
– Want to make a difference
– Put constituents first
– Drink from a firehose
– Don’t know what they don’t know
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Know Your Audience (cont)
• Politics often trumps policy
• Ideology, moral beliefs drive decision-making
– Conservatives committed to principle, limited role
of government
– Liberals committed to policy, expanded role of
government
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Find Common Ground
• Put yourself in their shoes
– What words, concepts and themes resonate?
• Beware the “backfire effect”
• Secure the psyche
– Don’t directly challenge identity
– Ask what they know
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Trouble with ROI
• Economists: ROI isn’t appropriate measure for
public health
• Savings are often not “in time”
– Projections are meaningless
• Estimates are often in aggregate
– Lawmakers can’t relate
• Other programs aren’t held to same standard
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“Return on Objective” as Alternative
• Mission of public health is to improve health,
not save money
• ROO shows the program accomplished goals
that are
– Set before implementation
– Measurable and attainable
– Qualitative or quantitative
• Emphasis on health outcomes
• Efficiency flows from effectiveness
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ROO Resonates More Than ROI
• Demonstrates impact in community now (not 20
years from now)
• Results don’t necessarily have to be population
based
– Power in one
– Data make you credible, stories make you
memorable
– See www.cutshurt.org for examples
• Shows lawmakers, taxpayers they are “smart
purchasers” of goods
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Don’t Overthink It
• Lawmakers aren’t peer reviewers
– Take credit for success
– Anecdotes matter
• Don’t just tell, show
• ROO is “and” not “or”
– Show ROI when possible
– ROO provides context
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Contact
Emily J. Holubowich, MPP
Senior Vice President
Cavarocchi ∙ Ruscio ∙ Dennis Associates
202.484.1100
[email protected]
Follow Me! @healthfunding
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